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Tendencias, 2013 El presente documento explora cuales son los principales determinantes que influyen al momento de ofrecer la fuerza de trabajo en el mercado laboral del área metropolitana de Pasto.
Edgar Marcillo Yépez +1 more
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Growth and Income Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys [PDF]
This paper provides evidence on growth and income poverty in Latin American and the Caribbean. Results are obtained by processing microdata from household surveys of 18 LAC countries covering the 1990s and early 2000s.
Federico Gutiérrez +2 more
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Exploring trends in labor informality in Latin America, 1990-2010 [PDF]
, 2014 Labor informality is a pervasive characteristic of the labor markets in Latin America, and a central issue in the public policy debate. This paper discusses the concept of labor informality and implements alternative definitions using microdata from ...
Battistón, Diego Ezequiel +3 more
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Tendencias, 2010 El presente documento explora cuales son los principales determinantes que influyen al momento de ofrecer la fuerza de trabajo en el mercado laboral del área metropolitana de Pasto.
Edgar Marcillo Yépez +1 more
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The 1990s in Latin America: Another Decade of Persistent Inequality [PDF]
This paper argues that there is no country in Latin America where we can confidently say that income inequality improved during the 1990s. We document this fact for the 15 countries where comparable household surveys, covering most of the population, are
Marianne Hilgert, Miguel Székely
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New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America [PDF]
This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition.
Atal, Juan Pablo +2 more
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Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2008 Como una alternativa a la problemática que gira en torno a la dimensión real del desplazamiento forzado en Colombia, este artículo analiza el poder explicativo de la caracterización instrumental del desplazamiento forzado a partir de la Encuesta Continua
Adriana Carolina Silva Arias +1 more
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Recent trends in income inequality in Latin America [PDF]
This paper documents patterns and recent developments on income inequality in Latin America (LA). New comparative international evidence confirms that LA is a region of high inequality, although maybe not the highest in the world.
Guillermo Cruces +2 more
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Giving children a better start: preschool attendance and school-age profiles [PDF]
, 2006 We study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes by exploiting a unique feature of the Uruguayan household survey (ECH) that collects retrospective information on preschool attendance.
Berlinski, S. +2 more
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What's Behind the Inequality we Measure: An Investigation Using Latin American Data [PDF]
The use of income distribution indicators in the economics literature has increased considerably in recent years. This work relies on household surveys from 18 LAC countries to take a step back from the use of these indicators, and explore what`s behind ...
Marianne Hilgert, Miguel Székely
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